Who Says All Doctors Endorse Vaccines?
If a large number of doctors and scientists (which appears to be the case) are reporting that they think vaccines may be responsible for significant instances of nasty complications and side-effects, isn't the primary responsibility of the media to report on those findings and concerns? Or could it be that only scientists and doctors on the payroll of pharmaceutical companies and government agencies (like the CDC and FDA) have all the answers and, therefore, only their findings and conclusions are worthy of being covered by mainstream media?
The well-funded pro-vaccine cartels claim that only Internet health sites and a few malcontents in the scientific community have any objection to or concerns about vaccines; they furthermore claim that these objections can only be found on the WEB or the Internet (or perhaps in smaller magazines and newspapers). Does this mean that information found on the Internet is always unreliable and untrustworthy; or can we consider the other possibility: that Internet health information sites may not be as up-for-sale as the mainstream media?
If a well-respected doctor, for example, after doing extensive research (some of it hinging on what she sees in her own practice) wants to publish her findings in a mainstream media but can't find any that will publish the results, what is that doctor supposed to do? Would it really surprise anyone to know that mainstream media may arbitrarily decide what they want to publish or not publish on their publications based, not necessarily on whether good science is being used, but whether the decision to publish something their sponsors may dislike might affect their financial bottom line?
For the record, mainstream media publications are money-making enterprises, including many so-called "scientific journals." In fact, most (if not all) heavily depend on the funds they receive from advertisers and sponsors.
If these advertisers (especially the very wealthy pharmaceutical industry) espoused a particular agenda (that, say, nothing may be published which attacks or even questions vaccine safety and efficacy), would mainstream media publications ignore such an agenda or would they (naturally interested in keeping an eye on what matters most in the business world: profits!) just obey their masters?
Just asking the question may offend some people but is the pharmaceutical industry different than, say, the petroleum industry or most other major industries? At the end of the day, is Forbes's magazine or the New York Times (etc.) more interested in defending scientific integrity or in preserving their profit margins?
Contrary to What Mainstream Media is Reporting, Many Doctors/Scientists Are Wary of Vaccines!
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By the way, the numbers aren't anywhere near that lopsided. In fact, suffering a side effect from a vaccine for say small pox is statistically much much more likely to harm you than your current chance for getting small pox. I picked that one on purpose because it's not controversial right now.
I also would like to add that the media blaming anti vaccine thoughts on Wakefield and MMR and autism isn't true in my case. You can tell where I stand. I have had this opinion for 25 years and could give you many more reasons than that
Freedom of choice is big. We want individual freedoms. Strap people down and forcing them to vaccinate is something out of a Sci Fi movie and should never become reality...
Like any product on the market, make it safe, make it effective and people will buy it. Cover up safety issues, pay a companies liability insurance for them and make them immune to lawsuit, why bother doing real research.
By the way, do they still break up the lots and ship them around the country in case they cook a hot batch? They used to so they don't create a scare. I haven't heard this in a while but I know that pediatricians used to have to record the lot number. That made me wonder.
Enough from me. Nice site, nice people discussing. Blessings. I got a little long.
Twelve years of fear and scare tactics is not easily undone. Especially when we're talking about parents' instinctive nature to protect their children. Marry that with a growing distrust of all things governmental and we have a situation where many parents simply DO NOT trust what the government, the CDC, the pharmaceutical companies, and even their doctors tell them. We question everything, AS WE SHOULD.
That said, I think it's in our childrens' best interest to question and research OBJECTIVELY. It's hard to do because you don't know what to believe anymore. It's certainly not easy for a parent to conduct their own investigation into the validity of any research paper or scientific claim. We have to rely on other organizations to do this, ironic isn't it?
We HOPE that there is some entity out there that sincerely cares about the kids. As a result, parents make what they think is the best decision based on what they have heard and read. And that's where we are today, with good parents on either side of this debate, doing the best they can to protect their children in a climate of distrust.
What I find most sad about this debate is the contempt I see from a lof of pro-vaccine parents towards anti-vaccine parents. Parents who don't vaccinate are doing the same thing that parents who do vaccinate are doing - they are doing what they think will best protect their children (unless they are not vaccinating due to religious beliefs, that's a separate issue). No one should judge parents who don't vaccinate. Many or most of them are very fearful that the poisonous chemicals contained in those vaccines will harm their precious little children (short-term or long-term). Who can blame them?
My wife and I questioned the MMR vaccine specifically because of Wakefield's study and other claims "out there." We ultimately got the MMR vaccinations for our children but we delayed many of the other recommended vaccinations and got them on a more spaced out schedule. We decided to vaccinate because, in our opinion, the available science supports their benefits.
So our kids are vaccinated, but it wasn't an easy process on us, it was even very stressful at times. We even dreaded some pediatrician visits where we knew we were going to tell our pro-vaccination doctor that "we're gonna' wait on that vaccination for another 3 months." Good luck to all you parents out there struggling with this debate. I don't think it will end anytime soon.
Who is right and who is wrong? Can't there be a group of pediatricians that would investigate this once and for all? Are all pediatricians afraid to get out from the shadows and speak out about this?
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